Driving attachment to separating-machines.



v c. H. BARKER. DRIVING ATTACHMENT T0 SEPARATING MACHINE S.

APPLICATION FILE-D MAY M 1914.

1,192,841. Patented Aqgvl, 1916.

WITNESSES INKEQTOR 3 W By CHARLES HENRY BARKER, OF REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

DRIVING ATTACHMENT TO SEPARATING-MAGHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

Application filed May 4, 1914. Serial No. 836,228.

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gi-IAuLns HENRY BARKER, of the city of Regina, in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Driving Attachments to Separating- Machines, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to an attachment to separating machines, especially to an adj ustable driving attachment and the object of the invention is to provide a device of the above class which can be attached to any separating machine and can be utilized for driving a sheaf loader unloading attachment, the said unloading attachment being not herein described but being completely shown and explained in a co-pending application filed by me under No. 836227 the 4th day of May 1914.

'With the above object in view the invention consists essentially in the arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in the appended claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 represents a side view of the improved device as applied on a separating machine. Fig. 2 represents an enlarged detailed vertical sectional view through the at tachment, the section being taken in the.

plane denoted by the line X-X Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged detailed perspective view of a portion of the unloading attachment drive shaft.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure. t

I might explain that this invention is arranged so that the sheaf loader provided with the unloading attachment can be driven up to the side of the separating machine and driven by the same, the unloading attachment when operated being designed to pass the sheaves from the sheaf loader into the self feeder of the separator. In this way I am able to unload direct to the separator and the attendant of the sheaf loader can himself do all the necessary work without requiring any extra help.

Referring now to the drawing: 7 represents a separating machine and S the self feeder thereof, the latter being of ordinary construction and being arranged as is usual to direct sheaves into the separator for threshing purposes.

v 9 represents the driving attachment forming the substance of this application. It

comprises two opposing supporting beams 10 and 11 having their forward ends connected by suitable inserted cross beams 12 and havlng thelr rear ends permanently fastened to the sides of the separator in any suitable manner such as by bolts 13.

1d and 15 are opposing suitably connected side beams mounted on the supporting beams and having the outer edges thereof overhanging the supporting beams and fitted on the under side with rack bars 16 and 17 The inner sides of the side beams are channeled longitudinally as indicated at 18 the channels receiving the horizontally disposed portions of angle bars 19 and 20 permanently secured to the inner faces of the side beams. The angle bars in this way fasten the side bars slidably to the supporting bars.

21 is a cross shaft rotatably mounted in the supporting beams and fitted with a pair of pinions 21 and 21 engaging with the rack bars.

21 is a crank secured to the cross shaft by the turning of which the side beams can be adjusted toward or away from the separator as will readily be understood.

22 is a main shaft having the ends thereof rotatably mounted in bearings 23 carried by the side bars. The main shaft is fitted at one end with a driving pulley 2 1 and has the other end cored out to provide an open center 25 which is substantially square in cross section. The pulley 24 is connected by a belt 26 to any suitable driving pulley on the separator.

It is here explained that the separator is driven in the usual way by the traction on gine and that it is only a matter of connecting the pulley 24L with any of the numerous driving shafts of the separating machine. It is considered that this will be readily understood and a detailed explanation of the same is not given. Once the belt is mounted on the pulleys the crank is turned to advance the side beams and consequently the pulley shaft and in so doing take up any slack in the belt.

What I claim as my lnvention is;

The combination with a pair of parallel connected supporting beams, of a pair of superimposed connected side beams mounted on the supporting beams and provided on their inner sides with longitudinally disposed channels and having their outer sides overhanging the outer sides of the supporting beams, a pair of longitudinally disposed angle bars permanently secured to the inner sides of the supporting beams and entering the channels of the superimposed beams and connecting the said latter beams slidably to the former beams, racks permanently secured to the undersides of the overhanging portions of the superimposed beams, a r0- tatably mounted cross shaft carried by the supporting beams, a crank attached to the shaft, pinions secured to the cross shaft and engaging With the racks, a pair of opposing CHARLES HEN RY BARKER.

In the presence of W. HALsEY 0. GREEN, T. H. Case.

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